He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness.

For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.

Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser

It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.

Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone, I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done.

No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it’s only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying, once gone, what is left is only an object.

Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was nothing but an aching grey blankness…

At the best of times, Father Bain's face resembled a clenched fist.

Why waste your strength envying and hating instead of loving?

Yankee Stadium is my favorite stadium; I'm not going to lie to you. There's a certain feel you get in Yankee Stadium.

I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and the nobility of love is considered. It's a land of higher ideals.

We have a very intelligent team. I've had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you tell the team you're going to have a closed practice and eight guys don't show up.

I make our family traditions a priority.

There are many ways to study Walt Disney, but I think learning about Walt as a leader probably has had the biggest impact on me.

This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.

When Cristiano Ronaldo gets the ball, you can just leave him to it while he beats player after player.

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!